Frost at Midnight

What is the first thing you picture when you hear the words “Australian nature”? I’m sure most of you instantly think of the green-filled plains or the sunburnt land and the shimmering, blue water we are surrounded by. And yes, the majority of us take pride in our sun flared lifestyle and rhapsodise about what nature brings to us. Consequently, it is no surprise that many Australian poems are based on ideas of the Australian environment, landscape and nature, whether with respect to our…

narrator is different from society and cannot even associate with them. He can only be acquainted with the night, which ironically will only prolong his depressive state. 5. Night in this poem represents darkness, loneliness, and unhappiness. Robert Frost is able to portray this message by using symbols such as the narrator passing “by the watchmen on his beat / and [dropping his eyes], unwilling to explain” (5-6). This experience shows that night represents depression and…

Robert Frost was an American poet who was born on March 26, 1874 and died on January 29, 1963. Frost’s writing career started at the early age of 20 years old (1894) when Frost’s first poem, My Butterfly: An Elegy, was published. For the first half of Frost’s life My Butterfly: An Elegy was Frost’s only published work. After Frost’s first poem was published, Frost moved onto other things in life, such as farming, marrying Elinor Miriam White, and raising children. It was not until Frost’s later…

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost is a short poem about a character who encounters with two roads that diverged in a yellow wood, and he has to choose which road to go. For the narrator it is impossible to see what lies ahead, he examines booth roads accurately and thinks that one road is less worn by passers that another. However, he realizes that both roads are likely equally traveled and complains that he will probably never return to take the other path. Moreover, the narrator thinks of…

Should mere suggestion prove insufficient, Frost can send a surge of energy into the mind of another person, overwhelming their body with her consciousness and allowing her to take possession of their faculties for a limited amount of time while leaving her own unattended. Frost can 'suggest' to any amount of minds within a certain radius of herself--generally 60 miles--though such a feat can and will become taxing. Mere mental manipulations are not the full extent of Emma Frost's abilities,…

In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, there is both a literal and figurative meaning of the poem. The poem consists of eight lines of rhyming couplets written in iambic trimeter. The author uses imagery, personification,and metaphors to explain the beauty of life and how life does not last forever. Poems can be taken literally and figuratively. Frost uses imagery to show the literal side of the poem. Written in the poem, is the line “Nothing gold can stay” meaning it can not always…

Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Frost describes several images of nature, new beginnings, and the decline of beauty. Frost uses powerful imagery throughout his poem, and he connects his theme by stating, “so dawn goes down to day,” which illustrates a sunrise turning into day (line 7). This image stands out because it illustrates the pure, innocent beauty that comes from a sunrise, yet that beauty fades as time progresses and, through this simple image, Frost…

Robert Frost was a well-known American poet. In Frost’s poem “Range Finding”, he uses rich and vivid language in order to paint mental images in readers’ minds. Additionally, Frost utilizes diction, rhyme, and form in a way that lets the poem flow. “Range Finding” has a relatively straightforward structure. It is laid out in the form of a sonnet. It contains fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that are split into two stanzas. The first stanza is an octave consisting of eight lines, and its rhyme…

When you imagine the season of winter what do you think of? Do you visualize fresh snow falling from the sky or do you think of fires being lighted in the chimneys of several homes? Artists such as John Twachtman and George Luks expressed their emotions and feelings on winter through their paintings. In 1889, John Twachtman painted 'Along the River, Winter.' The subject matter expressed winter as being peaceful and still by including a dull sky, fresh layers of snow, and a small path leading to…

Photographed in the winter of 1940 by Marion Walcott, “Snowy Night” was taken in the center of town in Woodstock, Vermont. The center of town is well-lit by the soft light emitted from the street lamps; displaying the lack of people out on this “Snowy Night.” While it is unable to definitively deduce from the snow-covered cars that line the block, the lack of people is certainly aided by the cold temperatures and closed businesses. Topic sentence. The first thing that catches one’s eye in this…